RAF Stations Flashcards
RAF Akrotiri
Cyprus Operations Support Unit.
Permanent Joint Operating Base.
Griffin HAR1 Fleet.
903 Expeditionary Air Wing.
RAF Ascension Island
Staging Post for flights to the Falkland Islands and deters aggression against UK South Atlantic Overseas Territories.
US Space Force Ground Tracking Station.
RAF Benson
RAF Puma Support Helicopter Force.
Joint Helicopter Command.
Chinook Operational Conversion Unit.
RAF Boulmer
UK Air Surveillance and Control Systems (UKASCS) Force Command.
NATO Control and Reporting Centre (CRC).
RAF Brize Norton
Largest RAF Station.
RAF Strategic and Tactical Air Transport (AT) and Air-to-Air Refuelling (AAR) forces.
Parent to Keevil Airfield.
RAF College Cranwell
Central Flying School. No. 3 and No. 6 Flying Training School. Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre. HQ Air Cadets. Officer and Aircrew Cadet Training Unit.
RAF Coningsby
RAF Typhoon Force.
Quick Reaction Alert (QRA).
RAF Cosford
Defence College of Technical Training.
RAF Digby
Oldest RAF Station.
HQ Joint Cyber and Electromagentic Activites Group.
RAF Fylingdales
Allied Space Surveillance Network.
Missile Defence System.
RAF Gibraltar
Staging post for operations in the Mediterranean and the Iberian Peninsula.
RAF Halton
Basic Recruit Training Course.
RAF Henlow
Support Station.
RAF High Wycombe
HQ Air Command.
No. 1, 2, 11, 22 Groups.
National Air and Space Operations Centre.
RAF Honington
RAF Force Protection Headquarters and Force Protection Centre.
RAF Leeming
Hawk T.1.
RAF Lossiemouth
Typhoon FGR4 Main Operating Base.
Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) North.
P-8 Poseidon.
RAF Marham
F-35 Lighting III Force.
RAF Mount Pleasant
Typhoon FGR4 C-130J Hercules C1 A330 MRTT Voyager Chinook Headquarters British Forces South Atlantic Islands.
RAF Northolt
No. 32 (The Royal) Squadron.
No. 62 (Queen’s Colour) Squadron.
RAF Odiham
RAF Chinook Force.
Joint Helicopter Command.
RAF Scampton
No. 1 Air Control Centre.
RAF Mobile Meteorological Unit.
RAF Aerobatics Team (The Red Arrows).
RAF Shawbury
No. 1 Flying Training School.
Defence College of Air and Space Operations.
RAF Spadeadam
Electronic Warfare Tactics Facility.
Largest by land area.
RAF St Mawgan
Defence Survival Training Organisation.
Newquay Airport
RAF Syerston
No. 2 Flying Training School (Gliding).
Central Gliding School.
Central Flying School.
Parents RAF Topcliffe, Little Rissington, Kenley, Kirknewton.
RAF Valley
No. 4 Flying Training School. Martime and Mountain Flying Training. Hawk T2 and T6 Texan. RAF Mountainm Rescue Service. Parent to RAF Mona.
RAF Waddington
ISTAR Force.
RAF Air Warefare Centre.
RAF Wittering
RAF A4 Force HQ (Engineering and Logistics).
RAF Woodvale
AEF.
RAF Wyton
Joint Forces Command Station.
Joint Forces Intelligence Group.
Nation Centre for Geospatial Intelligence.
RAF(U) Swanwick
Distress and Diversion Cell.
Military Airspace Coordination and Booking Cell.
Radar Analysis Cell.
RAF Northolt Approach Control Unit.
Remote Radar Heads (RRH)
RRH Benbecula RRH Brizlee Wood RRH Buchan RRH Neatishead RRH Portreath RRH Saxa Vord RRH Staxton Wold RRH Trimingham RRH Mount Alice, Falkland Islands RRH Mount Kent , Falkland Islands RRH Byron Heights, Falkland Islands
JHC FS Aldergrove
38 Engineer Regiment.
5 Regiment Army Air Corps.
Other Airfields
Keevil Airfield (RAF Brize Norton). Kenley Airfield (VGS). Kirknewton Airfield (VGS). Little Rissington Airfield (VGS).
RAF Linton-on-Ouse
Former fast jet station.
Air experience flight.
RAF Weston-on-the-Green
No. 1 Parachute Training School.
Semi-Permanent Overseas Bases
Al Minhad Air Base, UAE (No. 906 AEW, Air Transport and Refuelling Hub).
Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar (No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group).
Creech Air Force Base, USA (MQ-9A Reaper).
Edwards Air Force Base, USA (F-35 Lightning III Test and Evaluation Unit).
RAF Troodos, Cyprus.
MOD Air Weapons Ranges
Cape Wrath (Tain Air Weapons Range). Donna Nook Air Weapons Range (RAF Conningsby). Holbeach Air Weapons Range (RAF Marham). Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range. Tain Air Weapons Range
United States Visiting Forces
RAF Alconbury.
RAF Barford St John (RAF Croughton).
RAF Croughton (Signals Intelligence Facility).
RAF Fairford (501st Combat Support Wing, Heavy Bombers).
RAF Feltwell (Space Intelligence Facility).
RAF Lakenheath (48th Figher Wing).
RAF Menwith Hill (NSA).
RAF Mildenhall (100th Air Refuelling Wing).
RAF Molesworth ( Joint Intelligence Operations Center Europe (JIOCEUR) Analytic Center)
RAF Welford (RAF Fairford Ammunitions Depot).
Royal Naval Air Stations.
RNAS Culdrose.
RNAS Yeovilton.
Army Aviation Centres.
Middle Wallop.
Wattisham.
